Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
She is hardly "playing princess in a high tower". She wants someone with good social skills who has the capability of drawing her out. I'm sure there are many men who prefer extroverted women who can make them open up. It's called a preference. Get the hell over it and stop applying misogynistic caricatures ("princess in a high tower- WTF?) to a perfectly fine and good situation.
This is exactly right. Introversion and reserve/shyness are personal characteristics with good and bad facets like any other characteristic, and I don't see them as things I have to address in the name of self-improvement. I'm not interested in anyone who sees them as problems to be solved, although I do tend to warn people up front that I can be slow to warm up. Perhaps more than social skills, empathy is VERY important to me.
I'm the same exact way. Good social skills, extroversion, and as you said, empathy, is extremely important to me. I am like you, I don't open u immediately because I want someone who has the capability of handling that. It also sorts out the people who might have the capability, but not like me enough to do so. It sorts the wheat from the chaff and lets me see which guys have the characteristics I'm after. Simple as that, and I'm extremely happy with the kind of men that I have met/gotten serious with because of that technique.